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Entries from September 27th, 2011

Rugby World Cup 2011 – Lessons in Rugby Speed & Power from Weekend 3

September 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Power, Speed, World Cup

During the RWC 2011 games this weekend there were quite a few examples of real rugby power and speed.
Kaino from New Zealand is the perfect example of the modern back row forward. He has absolutely amazing power and his hits are some of the biggest in world rugby.
I remember first seeing him play for the [...]

Rugby World Cup 2011 – Week 2 Physical Performance of the Week

September 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · World Cup

Like last week the best performance this week comes from the highest ranking teams clash.
The Australia v Ireland game was amazing to watch and I was thrilled for the Irish.
The whole team played well, but in particular the Irish forward pack as a whole were immense. The front row were all exceptional and destroyed [...]

Developing Powerful Athletes for Rugby

September 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Power, Weight Training

In my last post I talked about the importance of having the necessary skills to be a rugby player. In today’s professional rugby world the strength and power element of the game has become far more prevalent than back in the amateur days. Now this is generally due to the amount of time professionals rugby [...]

Lessons in Rugby Power from the RWC 2011 Round 2 Weekend Fixtures

September 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment · World Cup

This weekends fixtures in the Rugby World Cup showed yet again how far the lower tier nations have come in the last few years.
Georgia were immense against England. They are now getting to the stage where their raw strength and power is now being expressed in rugby playing terms.
A lot of the former Soviet [...]

Rugby World Cup 2011 Round 1 – Top Physical performance

September 15th, 2011 · No Comments · World Cup

The opening round is all done now and whilst I waited for Wednesday and Thursdays games to pass, before picking my player of the week, the best physical performance had to really come from the clash between the highest ranked teams.
That was, of course, Wales v South Africa and although South africa won the match [...]

Rugby World Cup 2011 Opening Weekend….Top physical performances!

September 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

With the fist round of matches completed and the first look at the players in most of the teams there were a couple of stand out performances and physical displays that need highlighting.
Firstly, the most dangerous looking speedster!…(and it wasn’t him!)
As I’ve talked about before, speed is the hardest of the physical attributes to defend [...]

Physical Peaking for the Rugby World Cup 2011

September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · General Debates

With the rugby world cup 2011 only about 24 hours away the majority of hard training will have been done.
It’s far easier to reach a physical peak for a one off event or week such as in the Olympics but it is much harder to hold that peak over a 6 week competition (harder still [...]